Is it wrong to correct old ladies? I don’t think so. I think some people like to pretend to themselves that I must be a real bitch for pointing out their mistakes. I just think these people have real problems holding themselves accountable for their actions and haven’t got respect for personal property.

Today I went to the grocery store. I pulled into the diagonal parking lot and started down a one-way parking row. A car was backing up, but then it started turning around. The driver was maneuvering (very poorly) around the return buggy man and hit the car parked behind her. I could hear it. Since I was already stopped to wait on the buggy man, I was kind of in her way to leave the lot (since the row is not big enough to support two-way traffic). I motioned to the driver to roll down her window and told her she’d hit the car.

“No I didn’t!” she barked at me.

“Yes, ma’am, you did. I saw you hit it, and heard it too. You didn’t even look.”

All I could get her to do was pull around and sort of look in that direction while in her car with sunglasses on.

“Oh that can be rubbed out!” she said with a huff. I let her know that the row was meant to be exited the other way. “Well, I KNOW, but you don’t need to tell ME how to drive, young lady!”

“If you would drive in the lot as it was designed to be used, you wouldn’t have hit anyone’s car.” She continued to huff and puff and went back and forth with me. I told her I wasn’t trying to be disrespectful. “Well, it sure sounds like you are.”

“Ma’am, you are disrespecting this person’s car by leaving it with a big scratch.” It’s a pretty new Cayenne.

She then asked me if I was a good Samaritan. “I’m trying” was all I could come up with. She blew me off and left, still going the wrong way.

I realize that I can be a smart ass – I come by it honestly. But really, how are people going to learn if they never get lessons? They surely aren’t teaching themselves.